Distributing mechanism of typographical composing-machines.



C. MUEHL EISEN. DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM OF TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION HLED APR. I4. 1915.

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Patented Apr. 10, 1917.

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DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM OF TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED APR- I4' I9I5.

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CARL MUEHLEISEN, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOIR 'IO MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

IOISHRIBUTING MECHANISM OF TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING-MACHINES.

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" b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CARL MUEHLEIsEN, a citizen of the United States of America, re-- siding at Uhausseestrasse 23, Berlin, N. at, in the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Distributing Mechanism of lypographical Composing-lilachines, of which the following is a specification.

s invention relates to typographical composing and distributing machines such as those'lrnown con'imercially under the trade mark Linotype. Ordinarily in such machines, the so-called sorts matrices which are not stored in the magazine but are added by hand to the line of matrices in course of composition, are, during the subsequent dis tribution of the said line, conveyed along the whole length of the distributer bar, and are permitted to drop from the end thereof into a chute by which they are conveyed to a special receptacle, known as a pi-bowl, situated near the keyboard of the machine, so that the said sorts matrices are within convenient reach of the operator when required for further use. A similar method of distributing sorts matrices is employed in machines which are provided with a plurality of magazines and distributers, wherein the line ofmatrices to be distributed is first presented to a preliminary or font-distributer. The font-distributer effects the separation of the ordinary matrices according to the magazines to which they belong, and delivers them into chutes by which they are conveyed to the distributers appropriate to the respective magazines. The sorts matrices, however, are conveyed along the Whole length of the ribbed bar in the font-distributer and are only released from it at the point where the matrix-supporting ribs are discontinued, above the last chute in the series, by which chute they are conveyed to the distributer of the respective magazine to be dealt with in the same manner as in the above-mentioned case of a single distributer.

It will be seen that this method of distributing sorts matrices must result in unnecessary wear of their teeth. and of the ribs on the particular distributer bar along which all such matrices have to travel after leaving the font-distribute1n In order to avoid this unnecessary wear, means have been provided for conveying sorts matrices beyond the last chute in the font-distribu- Specificat-ion of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 10, 191?.

Serial No. 21,421.

ter and deliveripg them to a special chute which guides th ein to the pi-bowl, but such special chute has necessarily been long and bent, with the result that the matrices could not pass freely therethrough.

According to the present invention, the just-mentioned disadvantages connected with the distribution of sorts matrices are eliminated by providing improved means for the conveyance of such matrices from the fontdistributer to the pi-bowl.

The accompanying drawings show diagrammatically sufficient of a machine provided with four magazines to illustrate the application thereto of a constructional form of the invention,

gigure 1 being a front elevation thereof, an

Fig. 2 a sectional elevation, as seen from the right-hand side of Fig. 1, and on larger scale'than that to which the said figure is drawn.

The ordinary matrices are composed in well-known manner from the magazines 1, a particular font of such matrices being stored in each magazine, and after the desired cast has been taken from the composed matrices, they. are presented to the font distributer 2 which separates them according to font and delivers them, through the chutes 3 to the distributers 4- by which they are returned to the proper channels of the particular magazine appropriate to the fonts to which they belong.

The so-called sorts matrices, which are not stored in the magazines 1, but are added by hand to the line in course of composition, are also presented, along with the ordinary matrices, to the font-distributer 2, but, instead of being delivered thereby to one or other of the chutes 8, they are carried over those chutes to the end of the font-distributer and delivered to a special chute 5. Ac-. cording to the present invention the sorts matrices are guided by the chute 5 onto an endless conveyer belt 6, by which they are conveyed in the direction of the arrow in Fig. l and discharged, through a funnel 7 into a chute 8 down which they drop directly into the pi-bowl 9. The course of the sorts matrices from the font-distributer tothe pi-bowl is clearly indicated in Fig. 1 by the matrices 10, 11, 12 and 13, which are shown in respectively different parts of their travel.

" matrices, or matrices Without distinguishing combinations or mutilated ones, which may have found their way into the composed line and which would be rejected by the usual font selectors. Such matrices in the present construction would also be delivered onto the conveyer belt and transported to the pi-bowl.

Having described my invention I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a typographical machine, the combination with a primary distributing mechanism adapted toseparatematrices according to font,- and receptacles for receiving the matricesseparatedbytheprimarymechanism, of a sorts-disposing mechanism adapted to dispose of matrices undistributed by the primary mechanism and including an independent receptacle located at a point distant from the distributing mechanism, and

means for conveying the matrices to said distant receptacle comprising a conveyer and a chute interposed between the conveyer and the receptacle to receive the matrices fromthe conveyer and discharge them into the independent receptacle.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination with a primary distributing mechtraveling in an approximately horizontal plane, and a vertically disposed chute interposed between the conveyer and the receptacle to receive the matrices from the conveyer and discharge them into the independent receptacle.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL MUEHLEISEN.

Witnesses IVOLDEMAR I-IAUrr, HENRY HAsPER.

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